Later that night at the Tavern. Perzelle and the Emo WF captain approach us at our table. * Perzelle knows where the Blue Dragon lair is.* The Emo captain sketches us a map.* Perzelle knows Marilena's parents well, has known them for years.

----Day 55

We go to the Wizards guild, which is now guarded by the NLIW. We are logged in and we wait to be allowed in. Balvenie begrudgingly grants Marilena guild membership (although without the bells and whistles).

Return to the apartment. Marilena pulls an all-nighter at the library, using her newfound access from membership. She looks up the history o the Orb of Pelor, and gets a map with locations of teleport circles.

----Day 56

We depart for the Dragon's lair. 8 days march through the snowy passes of the Firetips.

----Day 64

Arrive at the outskirts of the dragon's caves on the morning of the 9th day out of the FTC.

We head up to the parapet near the South Gate, it is carved from the living rock, and affords an excellent view of the battle. The battle begins, siege engines knock down a few giants, the forces are beaten back. The lord mayor comes out under heavy shielding on a magnificent white horse, and is summarily laid flat by an errant blow. The sceptre is knocked from his grasp to the ground. As we look on, a blue dragon swoops in and grabs the sceptre, then jets off to the North.

Capt Emo sends a horn signal and we approach.* We have to talk to "Briggs"* Briggs is in charge* Briggs is a stickler for discipline

Warforged are providing military training to humans within camp, but the humans are in large part constructing and seeing to the maintenance of huge siege-scale crossbows.

Inside the Command Tent, there's a huge table with a map, complete with route of march laid out, notes on provisioning, calculations on weapon size and personnel requirements.

Briggs comes in. Says that preparations will be complete in 3 days. He has a stack of reports that seem to back this up. Briggs is the largest of the warforged we've seen so far. Has a large pauldron with stars on it. That means he's in charge.

The giants have Approximately 15 titans. 1 or 2 may have already fallen in combat. They are massed at the South Gate entrance to the Firetip Caverns.

Lady Tiannich hired the warforged. They have been working at this particular mission for 20-30 years (giants have only had FTC under siege for ~4 months).

It will take 3 weeks to move everything from this camp into position. We will leave in 3 days, when preparations are complete, and make it to the North Gate with about 6 days to provide a warning to Capt Oban (we get a scroll w/ details).

In the meanwhile, Bruk & Kiranth get assigned additional duties to train humans to protect artillery. Briggs seems to care little for elves; says they are flaky and unreliable.